RE: Text on report

Why are you running down an array as a solution?  If his application needs 
lots of editing and all sorts of attention on a regular basis then he has 
to go to some sort of a mail merge solution anyway.  If the letter writing 
is an occasional thing with rare modifications then having the whole piece 
in one easily found object makes sense.  An array at the end of a 20-line 
RPG program allows green screen full page editing which isn't available 
any other way without writing a file-editing program and file definitions 
with all the attending documentation.  What could easily be a 20-line 
program suddenly blossoms into a whole application that takes a 1/2 week 
to write, test, and install.
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Booth Martin
Booth@MartinVT.com
http://www.MartinVT.com
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"Stone, Joel" <StoneJ@GourmetAward.com>
Sent by: owner-rpg400-l@midrange.com
06/23/2000 03:33 PM
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        Subject:        RE: Text on report
You received a lot of interesting ideas for your question, but IMO there 
were lots of suggestions that were really bad.  It bugs me when 
programmers design a solution using user spaces, arrays, API's, etc, that 
no one will ever be able to figure out down the road when a simple 
solution (like a physical file) will do the job just fine!
At our company we have lots of tricky solutions which could have been set 
up more simply, but instead cause everyone lots of headaches. 

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